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January 2017

Chapter Advisor - Dr. Gagik Buniatyan

Chapter president up to 31 December, 2016–Astghik Chalyan

Yerevan State University & National Academy of Sciences

SPIE Student Chapter

ID – 3487995

Activity Report (2016)

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https://spie.org/membership/student-members/student-chapters/student-chapter?chapter_id=1016899

Activity Report of YSU & NAS SPIE Student Chapter: Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2016

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Context Current Members ............................................................................................................................................................ 3

Seminars .......................................................................................................................................................................... 4

3rd International Advanced School on Frontiers in Optics & Photonics ......................................................................... 6

The Big World of Physics ................................................................................................................................................ 11

“Physics and We” scientific school ................................................................................................................................ 14

“Physics and We: lightning the optics” scientific camp ................................................................................................. 15

“Physics is for everyone” science school in Gyumri ...................................................................................................... 17

“Physics is for everyone” science school in Noyemberyan and Voskevan .................................................................... 18

Our Website ................................................................................................................................................................... 21

Editor of Conference Proceedings ................................................................................................................................. 21

Visited foreign research institutes ................................................................................................................................. 21

Participation of our members in conferences ............................................................................................................... 22

SPIE Student Chapter Leadership Workshop in Brussels ............................................................................................... 29

Our grants and awards .................................................................................................................................................. 29

4th International Symposium “Optics and its Applications” .......................................................................................... 32

New Year party in Team Time ....................................................................................................................................... 38

Plans for chapter future activities ................................................................................................................................. 39

Financial Information ..................................................................................................................................................... 40


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Current Members

Elected officers starting from January 1st, 2017

List of Current Student Chapter Members

1. Sergey Amirkhanyan 2. Karen Apresyan 3. Vardan Avetisyan 4. Razmik Aramyan 5. Anna Ayvazyan 6. Feya Ayvazyan 7. Hrachya Babujyan 8. Davit Baghdasaryan 9. Astghik Chalyan 10. Koryun Gevorgyan

11. Ani Grigoryan 12. Narek Karapetyan 13. Vachik Khachatryan 14. Vardazar Kotanjyan 15. Astghik Kuzanyan 16. Karapet Manukyan 17. Tatevik Mkrtchyan 18. Khachik Sahakyan 19. Edgar Sargsyan 20. Tatevik Vardanyan

Chapter Vice-President

Razmik Aramyan [email protected]

Chapter President

Davit Baghdasaryan [email protected]

Chapter Secretary

Feya Ayvazyan [email protected]

Chapter Treasurer

Vardazar Kotanjyan [email protected]


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Seminars

We organized the series of seminars with Armenian scientists and students during

2016, in order to make Optics and Photonics more popular, to make science more

interesting and to answer actual questions that arise for students. Seminars were

conducted by lecturers from scientific and industrial centers of Armenia and other

countries and our chapter members. As always the topics of seminars included various

fields of science, optics, astrophysics. Some seminars were unique and were met very

enthusiastic and attracted participants from different specializations.

1. YSU&NAS SPIE student chapter members Narek Karapetyan and Karapet Manukyan organized

seminar dedicated to the possibilities of programming languages «Mathematica» and «Matlab» as

a solution of various problems of expediency.

Narek Karapetyan presented «Matlab». Karapet Manukyan presented «Mathematica»


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2. YSU&NAS SPIE student chapter member Razmik Aramyan during the local seminars had a talk about

"The Big Bang Theory". Besides the presentation, the participants of the seminar had a chance to

watch a documentary film “The Big Bang Theory” and then discus about it and not defined aspects

of the theory.

Razmik Aramyan presents "The Big Bang Theory"


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3rd International Advanced School on Frontiers in Optics & Photonics

29 February – 12 March, 2016

Yerevan – Ashtarak, Armenia

http://ipr.sci.am/fop2016/

Dedicated to the 10th Anniversary of the Armenian SPIE Student Chapter

SPIE YSU and NAS Armenian student chapter in collaboration with Armenian TC of International Commission

for Optics, the Russian-Armenian University (RAU), the Institute for Physical Research of National Academy

of Sciences of Armenia (IPR), LT-PYRKAL and the Department of Physics of Yerevan State University (YSU),

organized 3rd International Advanced School on Frontiers in Optics & Photonics (FOP-2016). The participants

to the school had an opportunity to follow the lectures by the professors from mentioned universities and

do practical training as well as they had lab tours in research centers in the field. First and second FOP

schools were organized by our chapter accordingly in 2012 and in 2014.

The objective of this school was to bring together experienced and young scientists working on various areas

of optics and photonics and discuss the most recent developments in the field.

Organizers

Directors: Narine Gevorgyan (RAU, Armenia), David Hayrapetyan (RAU, Armenia & YSU, Armenia)

Coordinator: Astghik Chalyan (RAU, Armenia)

Manager: Artsrun Martirosyan (IPR of NAS, Armenia)

International Advisory and Program Committees: Aranya Bhattacherjee (University of Delhi, India), David

Blaschke (University of Wroclaw, Poland & JINR Dubna, Russia & MEPhI, Russia), Gagik Buniatyan (LT-

PYRKAL, Armenia), Anna Kotanjyan (YSU, Armenia), Levon Mouradian (YSU, Armenia), Aram Papoyan (IPR

of NAS, Armenia), Hayk Sarkisyan (RAU, Armenia & YSU, Armenia & SPBSTU, Russia)

Local Committee: Vardan Avetisyan(YSU, Armenia),Feya Ayvazyan(YSU, Armenia), Petros Petrosyan (YSU,

Armenia )

SPONSORS:

Russian-Armenian

University

Institute for Physical

Research of NAS

LT-PYRKAL

YSU Armenian SPIE

Student Chapter





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Lecturers

Artur Ishxanyan (IPR of NAS, Armenia)

Hayk Sarkisyan (RAU, Armenia; YSU, Armenia;

SPBSTU, Russia)

Levon Mouradian (YSU, Armenia)

Levon Aslanyan (YSU, Armenia)

Rafik Hakobyan (YSU, Armenia, Beam

Engineering for Advanced

Measurements Co., Orlando, USA)

Volodya Harutyunyan (RAU, Armenia)

Gayane Grigoryan (IPR of NAS, Armenia)

Anna Kotanjyan (YSU, Armenia)


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Lab Tour: CANDLE (Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries using Light Emission)

Coordinator: Artsrun Sargsyan

(YSU, Armenia; CANDLE, Armenia)


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Lab Tour: Ultrafast Optics Laboratory (Yerevan State University)

Russian-Armenian University Yerevan State University

Coordinator: Levon Mouradian (YSU, Armenia)


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Presentations by students

Minas Sukiasyan (YSU, Armenia)

Astghik Chalyan (RAU, Armenia)

Virab Gevorgyan (YSU, Armenia)

Presentation of YSU & NAS SPIE student chapter activities by

Astghik Chalyan YSU & NAS SPIE student chapter

Birthday cake

Group photo during YSU & NAS SPIE student chapter Birthday party


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The Big World of Physics The activity that is already a tradition for the chapter has a target audience as schoolchildren in order to make Optics and Photonics more interesting, understandable and popular for them. This year we have organized several meetings in different schools in all Armenia.

1. “Visit to school” On December 6th 2016 we visited «Usmunq» school in Yerevan. There SPIE & OSA Student Chapter members demonstrated experiments in optics by using the Optics Outreach Kit from SPIE for schoolchildren. Parallel with experiments our members explained the theory behind, that made the lesson more enjoyable and friendly. As a gift, children got diffraction glasses.

Karapet Manukyan is explaining Lows of Optics

Feya Ayvazyan with children is doing experiment


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2. “Astronomy at school”

Members of our SPIE chapter founded extracurricular clubs of astronomy at high schools. The aim is

to spread interests in astronomy among high school students. One of them is AYAS87 (Armenian

Youth Aerospace Society) extracurricular club of Physics, Astronautics and Astronomy in 87th School

of Avan, Yerevan, Armenia.

Vachik Kachatryan is a teacher at school

Orion Nebula image, taken from Canon 5D mark 3 attached to 8” Schmidt-Cassegrain

Celestron telescope, image have been taken from Aragats mountain, Armenia.

Photo Credit:Vachik Khachatryan


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3. “DAY OF PHOTONICS”

As hundreds of different organizations and scientific groups in the world, Armenian SPIE student chapter as

well took part in organization of the biannual event dedicated to the international day of photonics. On

October 26th 2016 the SPIE YSU & NAS student chapter with OSA YSU & NAS student chapter and Student

Scientific Society of YSU faculty of physics organized a lab tour to the Armenian–Greek Research,

Development and Production Company LT-PYRKAL. Crystals, Optics, Lasers and Systems departments of LT–

PYRKAL have research and industrial facilities for synthetic crystal growth, opto-mechanics and laser

electronics manufacturing and laser and EO Systems development. The chapter adviser and the general

director of the company Gagik Buniatyan showed and explained to students the role and a current

developments of optics and photonics in military, security and so on (http://day-of-photonics.org).

Second from left is our SPIE chapter advisor and director of LT-PYRKAL Gagik Buniatyan

Astghik Chalyan, DAY OF PHOTONICS, Trento, Italy

http://day-of-photonics.org/mc-events/russian-armenian-university/


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“Physics and We” scientific school

On February 4-5, 2016 YSU faculty of physics held the “Physics and We”

scientific school. The school was organized by OSA YSU & NAS student

chapter and Student Scientific Society of YSU faculty of physics, with collaboration of SPIE YSU & NAS student

chapter (http://www.osa.am/en/school/school16/ ).

The school highlight:

Lecturers by researchers, students

Interactive experiments

Social-scientific films

Our SPIE chapter member Vachik Khachatryan presented “How to see unseen”

Participants and organizers of scientific school “Physics and We”

http://www.osa.am/en/school/school16/

http://www.osa.am/en/school/school16/


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“Physics and We: lightning the optics” scientific camp Scientific camp “Physics and We: lightning the optics” took place on 8-12 of August. More than 40

participants of the camp were high school and university students of 1-3 grades. Scientific camp was

organized by OSA (The Optical Society) YSU and NAS’s student chapter in collaboration with YSU

SSS (Student Scientific Society) and SPIE (The International Society for Optics and Photonics) YSU and NAS’s

student chapter. This camp was dedicated to centennial of OSA and was founded by OSA as Centennial

Special Celebration Event Grant (http://camp.osa.am/en/ ).

Campers of the scientific camp “Physics and We: lightning the optics”

Theoretical part of the camp was mainly concerned on concepts of the physics, with accent on applications of optics

in different fields of physics. Participants had opportunity to take part theoretical and experimental sections, held

by professors and young scientists.

Chapter advisor Gagik Buniatyan

Night sky observations with amateur telescopes.

http://camp.osa.am/en/

http://camp.osa.am/en/diary/

http://camp.osa.am/en/


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In practical part of the camp participants were separated into 6 groups and studied robotics, rocket engineering,

programing languages, program packets and tools that are used in physics.

Rocket engineering CNC and 3D modelling and printing

Physics in Android applications Robotics

Measuring equipment Modeling of Physical Processes on Computer


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“Physics is for everyone” science school in Gyumri On October 8-9 NPUA Gyumri Branch held the “Physics for everyone” scientific course, which included topics of

nanotechnologies, telecommunications, applications of optical devices, semiconductors, rocket engineering and

other fields. The course was organized by the Student Committee of NPUA Gyumri Branch and OSA YSU & NAS student

chapter with partnership of Student Scientific Society of YSU faculty of Physics, GSPI Student Committee and SPIE YSU

& NAS student chapter (http://www.osa.am/en/school/pfe-gyumri/ ).

Organizers and participants of scientific school “Physics is for Everyone”

Course included experimental

demonstrations, hands-on activities from

rocket engineering.

“Physics is for everyone” science school in Gyumri awards

ceremony in which students receive certificates.

In the photo from left to right:

President of OSA YSU and NAS chapter Vardan Avetisyan

Participant of science school Anahit Hakobyan

President of SC of NPUA Gyumri Branch Sofia Harutyunyan

http://www.osa.am/en/school/pfe-gyumri/

https://www.facebook.com/sc.npua.gb/

http://www.osa.am/en/school/pfe-gyumri/

https://www.facebook.com/pg/sc.npua.gb/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1475836989099279

https://www.facebook.com/pg/sc.npua.gb/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1475836989099279


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“Physics is for everyone” science school in Noyemberyan and

Voskevan On October 22-23 in Voskevan and Noyemberyan of region Tavush it was organized the next “Physics for

everyone” scientific course. The course was organized by OSA YSU & NAS student chapter with partnership

of Student Scientific Society of YSU faculty of physics and SPIE YSU & NAS student chapter

(http://www.osa.am/en/school/pfe-noy/ ).

Participants of scientific school “Physics is for Everyone” in Noyemberyan

Lectures included topics from various fields and applications of physics․ The materials were presented in an

accessible way. Both theoretical and hands-on activities from rocket engineering were also included in the

course, and the participants launched the rocket they built at the end of the course.

Participants of scientific school “Physics is for Everyone” in Voskevan

http://www.osa.am/en/school/pfe-noy/




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Publications of our chapter’s members

1. Hayrapetyan, D. B., Amirkhanyan, S. M., Kazaryan, E. M., & Sarkisyan, H. A. (2016). Effect of

hydrostatic pressure on diamagnetic susceptibility of hydrogenic donor impurity in core/shell/shell

spherical quantum dot with Kratzer confining potential. Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and

Nanostructures, 84, 367-371.

2. Amirkhanyan, S., Kazaryan, E., & Sarkisyan, H. (2016). Electrostatic multipoles created by electron

localized in narrow-band cylindrical nanolayer. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 673, No.

1, p. 012013). IOP Publishing.

3. DB Hayrapetyan, TV Kotanjyan, HK Tevosyan, EM Kazaryan,”Effects of hydrostatic pressure on the

donor impurity in a cylindrical quantum dot with Morse confining potential”, Radiation Effects and

Defects in Solids, 1-9, dx.doi.org/10.1080/10420150.2016.1257621

4. Harutyunyan, V.A., Hayrapetyan, D.B. & Baghdasaryan, D.A., “Single-electron states in

semiconductor nanospherical layer of large radius”, J. Contemp. Phys. (2016) 51: 350.

doi:10.3103/S1068337216040071

5. Baghdasaryan, D. A., Hayrapetyan, D. B., & Kazaryan, E. M. (2016). Optical properties of narrow band

prolate ellipsoidal quantum layers ensemble. Journal of Nanophotonics, 10(3), 033508-033508.

6. Baghdasaryan, D.A., Hayrapetyan, D.B. & Kazaryan, E.M.,” Quantum model of the prolate spheroidal

Thomson hydrogen atom”, J. Contemp. Phys. (2016) 51: 157. doi:10.3103/S1068337216020080

7. Baghdasaryan, D. A., Ghaltaghchyan, H. T., Kazaryan, E. M., & Sarkisyan, H. A. (2016). “Impurity with

two electrons in the spherical quantum dot with Unite confinement potential”. In Journal of Physics:

Conference Series (Vol. 673, No. 1, p. 012018). IOP Publishing.

8. Ghaltaghchyan, H. T., Hayrapetyan, D. B., Kazaryan, E. M., & Sarkisyan, H. A. (2016). “Few-body

absorption in prolate ellipsoidal quantum dot”. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 673,

No. 1, p. 012012). IOP Publishing.

9. Ghaltaghchyan, H.T.,Kazaryan, E.M., Sarkisyan, H.A. “Diamagnetic susceptibility of the electron gas

in the cylindrical nanolayer”, J. Contemp. Phys. (2016) 51: 162. doi:10.3103/S1068337216020092

10. H. Ts. Ghaltaghchyan, E. M. Kazaryan, H. A. Sarkisyan, “Diamagnetism in the cylindrical quantum dot

with parabolic confinement potential”, Proceedings of the YSU, Physics & Mathematics, 2016, no. 3,

20–24

11. Gevorgyan, A. H., Kazaryan, E. M., & Kostanyan, A. A. (2016). Intersubband absorption due to

scattering on ionized impurities and acoustic phonons in parabolic quantum well. In Journal of

Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 673, No. 1, p. 012016). IOP Publishing.

12. Gevorgyan, A. H., Kazaryan, E. M., & Kostanyan, A. A. (2016). Intrasubband light absorption in a

parabolic quantum well with consideration of scattering on the three-dimensional optical phonons.

Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences), 51(2), 150-156.

13. D. Blaschke, N.T. Gevorgyan, A.D. Panferov, and S.A. Smolyansky, "Schwinger effect at modern laser

facilities", Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 672, 012020 (10 pages) (2016)


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14. Guy Millot, Stéphane Pitois, Ming Yan, Tatevik Hovhannisyan, Abdelkrim Bendahmane, Theodor

W.Hänsch & Nathalie Picqué "Frequency-agile dual-comb spectroscopy",Nature Photonics

(21.12.2015),doi:10.1038/nphoton.2015.250

15. Khachatryan, Vachik; Voskanyan, Tsovak “The Role of Amateur Astronomy to Outreach

Astronomical Knowledge”, "Gitutyun" Publishing House of the National Academy of Sciences of the

Republic of Armenia (NAS RA), p. 218-224,12/2016

16. A.S. Kuzanyan, A.A. Kuzanyan. Pulsed Laser Deposition of Large‐Area Thin Films and Coatings,

Chapter in the book:“Applications of Laser Ablation - Thin Film Deposition, Nanomaterial Synthesis

and Surface Modification”, ISBN 978-953-51-2812-0, edited by Dongfang Yang, INTECH, 2016, p. 149-

173.

17. A. A. Kuzanyan, “Computer Simulation of Heat Distribution Processes in W/(La,Ce)B6/W Sensor of

Thermoelectric Detector” Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences), 2016,

Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 360–370.

DOI: 10.3103/S1068337216040083

18. A. A. Kuzanyan, A. S. Kuzanyan, V. R. Nikoghosyan, V. N. Gurin, and M. P. Volkov. “Investigation of

Processes of Heat Propagation in Multilayer Sensor of Thermoelectric Single-Photon Detector”

Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences), 2016, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 181–

190, DOI: 10.3103/S1068337216020122

19. A. A. Kuzanyan, A. S. Kuzanyan and V. R. Nikoghosyan :“Ultrafast TSPD on the basis of CeB6 sensor”

Journal of Physics: Conference Series 673 (2016) 012007, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/673/1/012007

20. K. M. Makeev, V. N. Gurin, L. I. Derkachenko, M. P. Volkov, A. S. Kuzanyan, A. A. Kuzanyan,T. B.

Popova, E. V. Ivanova: “Obtaining of crystals of polyelemental solid solutions of rare earth

hexaborides”, Technical Physics Letters 42(1):1-3, January 2016,DOI: 10.1134/S1063785016010120

21. Karapet Manukyan, Hrach Toneyan, Aram Zeytunyan, Levon Mouradian, “Simple Similaritonic

Alternative to the Autocorrelation Technique for Determination of Femtosecond Laser Pulse

Duration”, 25th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS’16, 11-15 July, 2016, Yerevan,

Armenia), Official website of LPHYS’16, ID: P.S8.4

22. Pors, A., Nerkararyan, K. V., Sahakyan, K., & Bozhevolnyi, S. I. (2016). Enhanced nonresonant light

transmission through subwavelength slits in metal. Optics letters, 41(2), 242-245.

23. Toneyan, H., Sukiasyan, M., Zeytunyan, A., Tsakanov, V., & Mouradian, L. (2016). Designing the

femtosecond optical oscilloscope. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 673, No. 1, p.

012006). IOP Publishing.

24. Toneyan, H., Zeytunyan, A., Zadoyan, R., & Mouradian, L. (2016). Classic, all-fiber, and similaritonic

techniques of spectral compression. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 672, No. 1, p.

012016). IOP Publishing.


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Our Website

One of the most important goals for our chapter is to make its official website: www.spie.am popular and

known. The website contains information about our chapter past and upcoming activities, our projects

archive. The information about upcoming scientific meetings and schools organized by other SPIE chapters

and various scientific centers are also published in the website. It also contains useful links and other

information for the students and for those who are interested in the activities of SPIE. We hope that our

website will help to get know about our chapter activities.

Editor of Conference Proceedings 1. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 672. Proceedings of ICTP Scientific event smr2633: 2nd

International Symposium on Optics and its Applications (OPTICS-2014), Yerevan-Ashtarak, Armenia,

September 1-5, 2014 (The Editors: M.L. Calvo, I.N. Dolganova, N. Gevorgyan, A. Guzman, A. Papoyan,

H. Sarkisyan, S. Yurchenko).

2. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 673. Proceedings of SPIE.FOCUS Armenia: 3rd

International Symposium on Optics and its Applications (OPTICS-2015), Yerevan, Armenia, October

1-5, 2015 (The Editors: M.L. Calvo, I.N. Dolganova, N. Gevorgyan, A. Guzman, A. Papoyan, H.

Sarkisyan, S. Yurchenko).

Visited foreign research institutes

1. Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia

2. Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel

3. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

4. University of Trento, Trento, Italy

5. Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento,Italy

6. Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

7. University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

8. Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

9. University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

10. Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research of Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

11. Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

12. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation

13. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

14. A.F. Ioffe Physical -Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg,

Russian Federation

http://www.spie.am/


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Participation of our members in conferences 1. ISOTDAQ 2016 - International School of Trigger & Data Acquisition, 24 January 2016 to 2 February

2016, Weizmann Institute of Science, Lopatie Conference Center, Rehovot, Israel

2. ICTP Preparatory School: Optical Frequency Combs - from multispecies gas sensing to high precision

interrogation of atomic and molecular targets, 8-12 February, 2016, Trieste, Italy

3. ICTP Winter College on Optics: Optical Frequency Combs - from multispecies gas sensing to high

precision interrogation of atomic and molecular targets, 15-26 February 2016, Trieste, Italy

4. 3rd International Advanced School "Frontiers in Optics & Photonics" (FOP-2016),29 February - 12

March, 2016,Yerevan - Ashtarak, Armenia

5. SPIE Photonics Europe 2016, Student Chapter Leadership Workshop, 3-7 April, Brussels, Belgium

6. Collaboration meeting between YERPHI and LATMOS. April 4-8 , LATMOS, Paris, France

7. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016 (EGU-2016), 17–22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria

8. LIGHT TALKS Armenia, 30 April 2016, Yerevan, Armenia

9. Collaboration meeting between YERPHI and Reading University , May 18-20, Reading, UK

10. Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement 2016 (CPOD-2016), May 30th - June 4th, 2016, Wrocław,

Poland

11. Cultural Astronomy in the Armenian Highland. Young Scientists Conference, 20-23 June 2016,

Yerevan, Armenia

12. Family doctor assistant summer practice at the clinical bases of Sechenov First Moscow State

Medical University, June 27th - July 8th, 2016, Moscow, Russian Federation

13. OPTO-Meeting for Young Researchers & SPIE/OSA Student Chapter Meeting (OPTO 2016), July 6-9

2016, Gdansk, Poland

14. IMPRS summer school on Floquet Physics, 11 - 14 July, 2016, Wroclaw, Poland

15. LPHYS'16.The 25th annual International Laser Physics Workshop,July 11-15, 2016, Yerevan,Armenia

16. 4th International Symposium on Optics and its Applications (OPTICS-2016), 25-28 July 2016, Yerevan-

Ashtarak, Armenia

17. Scientific camp “Physics and We: lightning the optics”, 8-12 August, Byurakan, Armenia

18. Wolfram Summer School Armenia, TUMO Centre, August 7–20,2016, Yerevan, Armenia

19. Course on Cryptography, organized within the project "SiQuro", 1-2 September, 2016, Trento, Italy

20. DigiTex Expo, September 30th – October 2nd, Yerevan, Armenia

21. Symposium Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Acceleration (TEPA-2016), October 3-7, Nor

Amberd International Conference Centre of the Yerevan Physics Institute, Byurakan, Aragatsotn

District, Armenia

22. The third annual ClimateLaunchpad EU 2016, October 10, 2016, Tallin, Estonia

23. Frontiers in Optics and OSA leadership conference 2016, 16-21 October, 2016, Rochester, NY, USA

24. Symposium "Bound States in Dense Fermion Systems: Applications in Plasma and Astrophysics",18

October 2016, Rostock, Germany

25. Workshop on "Convergent Micro-Nano-Bio Science and Technologies",21 October,2016,Trento,Italy

26. 4th International Conference “Nanotechnologies” Nano – 2016, October 24 – 27, 2016, Tbilisi,

Georgia


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27. XV Intergovernmental Conference "Thermoelectrics and its Applications - 2016", 15-16 November

2016, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

28. "Nanoscience Laboratory Kick Off Meeting", 25 November, 2016, Trento, Italy

29. "Physics PhD workshop 2016-2017", 30 November, 2016, Trento, Italy

Vachik Khachatryan participated in ISOTDAQ 2016, Rehovot, Israel


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Vardan Avetisyan, Astghik Chalyan, Stefano Franco, Tatevik Hovhannisyan, Joseph Niemela and

Karapet Manukyan, ICTP,Trieste,Italy

Celebrating 100th anniversary of OSA ICTP,Trieste, Italy

Narine Gevorgyan participated in (CPOD-2016), Wrocław, Poland


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The “LIGHTTALKS Armenia” scientific conference took place in the April 30th 2016 in the scope of

“International year of light 2015” events.

From right to left: Chapter member Petros Petrosyan with chapter

members and organizers of “LIGHTTALKS Armenia” Karapet Manukyan and Narek

Karapetyan

First from right is chapter member Feya Ayvazyan. DigiTex Expo,Yerevan, Armenia

http://lighttalks.info/

http://lighttalks.info/


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4th from the right is chapter member Arevik Chalyan. She took part in “Family doctor

assistant summer practice”, Moscow, Russia

Chapter member Astghik Kuzanyan with SPIE President-Elect Dr. Glenn D. Boreman,

OPTO-2016, Gdansk, Poland

Chapter members Davit Baghdasaryan and Tatevik Mkrtchyan participated in

Wolfram Summer School Armenia 2016, TUMO Centre, Yerevan, Armenia


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Presentation of chapter member Hripsime Mkrtchyan in the third annual ClimateLaunchpad EU Final start up competition with Simple Liquid Batteries (SLB),

Tallinn, Estonia

Chapter member Vardan Avetisyan took part in Frontiers in Optics and OSA leadership conference 2016, Rochester, New York, USA


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Oral presentation of chapter member Astghik Chalyan during “Kick Off Meeting", Trento, Italy

Poster presentation of chapter

member Astghik Kuzanyan

during Nano – 2016,

Tbilisi, Georgia

Chapter member Astghik Kuzanyan with prof. N.V. Gurin.

XV Intergovernmental Conference "Thermoelectrics and its

Applications - 2016", Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Chapter member Hripsime Mkrtchyan,

Reading University,

Reading, United Kingdom


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SPIE Student Chapter Leadership Workshop in Brussels Thanks to the SPIE student chapter Officer Travel Grant, the president of our chapter - Astghik Chalyan, was

able to attend the SPIE Photonics Europe 2016 (4-7 April, 2016), held in Brussels. On 3th April 2016 Astghik

participated in the SPIE Student Chapter Leadership Workshop in Brussels, where active members from all

over the world had opportunity to interact and learn from each other. Here they also had a chance to

interact with popular SPIE visiting lecturer Jean-luc Doumont of Principae and SPIE Early Professional

Coordinator Dirk Fabian facilitated an interactive all-day workshop for members of students from SPIE

chapters and clubs who travelled from 15 countries to gather in Brussels.

Group photo with SPIE President Robert Lieberman (Lumoptix)

She presented also the accomplishments and activities of our student chapter during the Photonics Europe

Student Chapter Poster Session.


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Our grants and awards 1.

2. Astghik Kuzanyan:Best oral presentation

in XV Intergovernmental Conference

"Thermoelectrics and its Applications -

2016", Saint Petersburg, Russian

Federation

3. Astghik Chalyan: Annual Educational

Award of the President of the Republic of

Armenia in IT Sphere The Best PhD

Student 1stCategory,19 October

2016,Yerevan,Armenia

4. ICTP Travel Grant

Vardan Avetisyan Astghik Chalyan Tatevik Hovhannisyan Karapet Manukyan

5. Viktor Hambardzumyan scholarship

Narek Karapetyan Karapet Manukyan

6. 2016 SPIE Travel Scholarship

Astghik Kuzanyan

SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs presents a plaque

recognizing the chapter's accomplishments to Astghik

Chalyan, president of the SPIE Student Chapter of

Yerevan State University and National Academy of

Sciences of Armenia.

The chapter celebrated its tenth anniversary during

the OPTICS-2016 symposium in Yerevan in July.


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7. Hripsime Mkrtchyan:1st prize National Winner start-up in ClimateLaunchPad

Armenia 2016, Yerevan, Armenia

8. Hripsime Mkrtchyan: Silver medal in start-up competition ClimateLaunchPad

EU 2016, Tallin, Estonia

9. Hripsime Mkrtchyan:Became

Security NCP of Horison 2020

10. Karen Apresyan and Khachik Sahakyan:

Shared 1st Place Student Poster Presentation

Contest in OPTICS-2016

Yerevan-Ashtarak, Armenia

http://h2020.sci.am/h2020/ncp.htm


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4th International Symposium “Optics and its Applications”

(OPTICS-2016)

Yerevan - Ashtarak, Armenia

July 25-28, 2016

http://rau.am/optics2016

Dedicated to the

100th Anniversary of the Optical Society

10th Anniversary of the Armenian SPIE Student Chapter

5th Anniversary of the Armenian Territorial Committee of ICO

Group photo during the Armenian SPIE Student Chapter’s Birthday Banquet

Sponsors:

http://rau.am/optics2016/index.php

http://rau.am/optics2016/index.php


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4th International Symposium “OPTICS and its

Applications” (OPTICS-2016) hold in Yerevan-Ashtarak,

Armenia, in July 25-28, 2016.The Symposium was

dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Optical Society,

10th Anniversary of the Armenian SPIE Student Chapter

and 5th Anniversary of the Armenian Territorial

Committee of ICO.

Organizing Centers

OPTICS-2016 organized by

SPIE YSU & NAS student chapter Armenian TC of ICO Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University Greek-Armenian industrial company LT-PYRKAL Institute for Physical Research of National Academy of

Sciences of Armenia Faculty of Physics of Yerevan State University University of Wroclaw

Co-organizing student chapters

OSA YSU & NAS student chapter, Armenia OSA & SPIE Wroclaw Univ. of Technology student chapters, Poland OSA & SPIE BMSTU student chapters, Russia OSA, SPIE & IEEE ITMO University student chapters, Russia

The Symposium program included :

Invited plenary talks and sectional

presentations

Student presentations (Special Prize

from OSA for the best student oral

presentation)

Student chapter presentations

Professional development lectures

Lab tours

Social events

LT-Pyrkal: Registration

http://spie.org/x1742.xml?chapter_id=1016899

http://e-ico.org/Armenia

http://rau.am/eng

http://www.lt-pyrkal.com/en

http://www.ipr.sci.am/


http://ysu.am/faculties/en/Physics

http://uni.wroc.pl/

http://rau.am/optics2016/geninfo.php



http://rau.am/optics2016/geninfo.php


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The Greek-Armenian industrial company LT-Pyrkal

Welcome words by directors of OPTICS-2016: From right.

Gagik Buniatyan, Chapter advisor, Director of LT-

PYRKAL

Aram Popoyan, National Academy of Sciences of

Armenia Institute for Physical Research, Academician

and Member of the NAS Presidium

Hayk Sarkisyan, Professor of the Russian Armenian

University, Yerevan State University, Armenia and

Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia

David Blaschke,Professor of the University of Wroclaw,

Poland and JINR Dubna, Russia; MEPhI, Russia

SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs (SPIE, USA)

SPIE’s Role in the Photonic Future

Gerd Häusler (Institute of Optics,

Information and Photonics, University of

Erlangen-Nuremberg Germany)

SPIE Visiting Lecturer

Fedor Mitschke (Institut für Physik,

Universität Rostock, Germany)

OSA Traveling Lecturer

Yerevan State University Institute for Physical Research of National Academy of

Sciences of Armenia




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Social program: Visiting Museum of Aram Khachaturian

Concert by the Khachaturian trio

Group photo after the concert


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Invited speakers in front of Yerevan State Universuty From left: Alexander Gusev, Eugene Arthurs,

David Blaschke, Sergue Vinitsky

Celebrating 10th Anniversary of Armenian SPIE Student Chapter

Excursion to the Oshakan Church and the tomb of Mesrop Mashtots. Mashtots is the inventor of Armenian alphabet.


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During OPTICS-2016 there were 28 oral and 11 poster presentations held by students. There were five prizes.

Awarded Students:

Mateusz Szatkowski (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)- Special Prize from OSA for the

best student oral presentation

Prizes from SPIE:

II place for the oral presentation: Astghik Torosyan (JINR Dubna, Russia)

III place for the oral presentation: Matīss Lācis (University of Latvia, Latvia)

I place for the poster presentation was shared between Karen Apresyan (Yerevan State University,

Armenia) and Khachik Sahakyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia)

Traditional group photo in Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University

Closing ceremony


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New Year party in Team Time

Best wishes for 2017!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!


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Plans for chapter future activities

1. Our chapter will organize:

2. Our Chapter will participate as co-organizer in

3. Our Chapter will participate as co-organizer in "Physics and We" school for High-School students

4. We will continue the project “The Big world of Physics”.

5. Our Chapter will participate as co-organizer in “ LIGHTTALK ARMENIA 2017”.

6. We will continue organizing seminars with leading scientists and PhD students.

7. We are going to organize experimental classes for young students, and during these classes we are

planning to conduct theoretical and experimental lectures concerning topics, photonics and

electronics.

8. We have planned several lab tours for students to the leading educational and industrial centers of

Armenia.

9. We will organize our traditional open-air chapter meeting.

5th International Symposium

“Optics & its Applications”

OPTICS-2017

3 - 7 July 2017

Wroclaw, Poland

http://www.ift.uni.wroc.pl/~optics2017

4th International Advanced School on

Frontiers in Optics & Photonics

FOP-2017

Yerevan-Ashtarak, Armenia

19-23 September 2017

http://www.ift.uni.wroc.pl/~optics2017/index.html







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Financial Information SPIE Activity Grant $ 1100

LT – PYRKAL $250

RAU $250

IPR $50

Beginning balance: $ 1650

Snacks and beverages during lectures, seminars and meetings: $150

The Big world of Physics (transport, equipment, snacks) $200

Coffee breaks during 3rd International Advanced School on

Frontiers in Optics & Photonics: $200

“Physics and We: lightning the optics” scientific camp: $300

Symposium Optics & its Applications: Printing materials +

symposium folders, posters for the symposium and Awards for

2nd , 3rd oral presentation and best poster presentations

$500

Registration & Hosting of the chapter web page: $100

Christmas party: $100

Support for students for participation in conferences: $100

$1650

Ending balance: $0

Astghik Chalyan

Chapter president up to December 31, 2016

Gagik Buniatyan

Chapter advisor, Director of LT-PYRKAL

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